I just use one to wrap the rest
Well this is brilliant.
What? Just put em in a bag, dude…
They came in a bag, I just find it easier and neater to deal with them this way when they get tossed off in a toolbox or the random kitchen junk/fastener drawer.
If you cut a small hole in the bag 1/5 of the way down, it keeps them together and you can bend a tie to get a single one out.
Still doesn’t make it any easier to pull out a specific color in a mixed variety color pack…
Good point, I have single-colour bags only.
Ok, now imagine you have like 4000 of them, which normally just fit in a normal sized ziplock bag. Bro is going to sit there for literally hours threading them onto another zip tie.
Oh hell with all that, if I got that many zip ties, I’m just gonna zip tie them in sensible size nobody’s really counting bundles.
I bought a bag of 1000 zipties once.
Once.
I bought ~190m of DC wire once.
Jesu
That’s a lot
What for?I asked for 5m for a science project. A coil of 190m was the minimum they sold.
It wasn’t too expensive (not copper), so I went with it.That’s actually hilarious. What did you do with the leftover??
I still keep it in a cardboard box full of other electronics related stuff, which includes my shitty soldering iron (which is shitty enough to have made me thought that I was bad at soldering, until I once put my hands on a Weller) and other pieces of out of dysfunctional electronics that I have hoarded, thinking that I might do something with them, someday.
I gave this as a reply to your comment because it is in the same spirit.
The iron and the wire are the most used components out of that box.
Well you’re not going to run out of wire for a while. lol
Were they multicolored?
Nope–black and a single size.
Ok.
I needed colors to tag otherwise unlabeled wire harnesses…
Colors is a good way to do it! I’ve only had to label wire harnesses a couple times and i used sharpie tick marks on the wires themselves. It worked but was awkward and took time to find the one wire i needed.
Zip tie one around them all, with the heads up, and stick a caribiner around the loop one. Then you can stick it on your belt, with the heads facing up. Just make sure to ratchet it tighter a notch every couple you use.
Eventually I moved on to these
This will go well with my duct tape and chloroform holster
Nice. But I ain’t about to buy 4 separate ones at $8.86 each to separate a 100 pack of 4 colors that came out of a mix pack that cost like $3.36 total…
Well no. Thats when you zip tie the ties… but if you’re someone who uses a lot of them regularly, for work, the spring loaded ones become pretty useful.
Or a rubber band
Or, now hear me out, you could just wrap the zip ties with…
A zip tie! Genius I know, who woulda guessed?
You can also just slide the zip ties backwards onto an intact zip tie. The lock will not engage backwards. That way when you’ve used the stored ties you still have one to use.
Yeah you’re right. I actually ended up thinking about exactly that after I finished arranging this.
Oh well, whatever. Good tip though. 👍
Back at ya 😎
Grab a handful of zip ties.
Take one zip tie, wrap it around the bundle and tighten, but don’t overtighten.
The end. Exponentially faster than whatever the hell this post is.
True, but this makes it way easier to keep count while also keeping colors arranged.
Who is counting zip ties???
You ever been on a team that installed a whole new system and all new Ethernet lines at a bank? I have, twice. We’re the kinda guys that arrange what they call cableporn on the internet.
If you gotta run 32 Ethernet lines for a distance of 200 feet, those zip ties have to be evenly and sensibly spaced, so it’s part measuring, dividing out, and wait for it…
Counting.
So are you a mechanic with oily hands or someone who installs cables in banks?
Both
Neither.
That is so much work…
Not really, I think it only took about 20 minutes or so. Not much different than playing with a fidget toy, but I kinda accomplished a thing at the same time.
I found it randomly relaxing actually.
what an absolute waste of time
Ok. You organize your toolbox your way, I’ll organize mine the way I want.
It’s a lot easier to arrange this way in a toolbox, especially when working on vehicles with nasty oily hands while trying to color code tag wire harness connectors.
Edit: It didn’t even take very long, maybe about 20 minutes, and I found the process to be somewhat relaxing actually. Way more relaxing than the actual mechanic work it’s meant for.
One zip tie in the middle to bundle the rest. Takes 2 seconds and keeps them in smaller bundles. Can pull one out with one hand.
OP is right, this is a waste of time. Especially because you limit how many can go on one zip tie and requires a tool to snip the end off. Why not just put them on backwards and not destroy one zip tie? Like, even if you use this method, you’re still doing it wrong lmao
Requires a tool? What are you talking about? Just zip them off the other end, I already cut the head off the main zip line.
Geez, do I have to explain common sense to people? I figured this would be obvious.
I like the idea you have, and may do it myself. The tool he’s taking about though is what you used to cut that head off.
What, you mean fingernail clippers?
It’s not difficult, it just makes an easier arrangement for the toolbox. Make the arrangements at home at your convenience, then when you need them, easy peasy…
They just zip off the other end ya know…
These remind me of quipu
Would be a great shitty pro life tip to instead tie each one into a chain. That way you can count them and even wear them like a daisy chain!
It only takes one to make a quick cheap cock ring.
And it only takes about 20 minutes to need to ring 911.
Nah I’ll pass, never done that, not smort…
I cut the corner of the bag they came in so I can shake one loose at a time.
I didn’t know how you’d have so many loose.
… and then turn that strip of zip ties into an Ultimate Warrior costume!..
/s but also don’t…or your dad may need to cut you out of it using tin snips because you pulled them to tight…hypothetically
LOL!
Many years ago I jokingly dared my friend’s sister to dress up in packing tape. I was totally being silly, but she actually did it hahaha!
I ended up having to cut her out of it. Guess she didn’t think about how tape sticks to hairs in sensitive areas…
Yes she was of age, like 24 at the time I think.
This is not a pro tip, wtf bags exist, its like posting “too much poop coming out your butt and splashing back up into your ass? Just shit through the cardboard tube of the toilet paper so it funnels directly into the toilet water” it is an objectively bad solution to a nonexistent problem.
Bro, its a variety color pack, and the bag they came in wasn’t a ziploc bag. Once the bag is opened and tossed off in my toolbox, they’ll end up shaking loose all over the place.
Another commenter suggested just cutting a hole in the side of the bag, which makes sense, but doesn’t make it in any way easy to pick out a specific color. I bought them to color code wire harness connectors.
Yeah yeah I could have just tossed them into a ziploc bag, but I find this neater and easier to deal with, especially when under the hood of a vehicle and my hands are covered in cruddy grease and oil.
Task avoidance at its finest.
I cut the top of the pack, take one out, zip the bundle together so it won’t fall off, pull one out when i needed it, then zip it tight each time. This one take too much initial effort to set up, especially when you have a tiny one.
Yeah, under the hood, hands covered in random cruddy engine fluids, and you want a specific color zip tie to tag wire harnesses, the absolute last thing you want is to try dealing with a plastic bag with oily hands…
Thank you for the tip and also the beautiful picture.
You’re quite welcome.
If you think for like 3 extra seconds, I could also use this arrangement to weave color patterned zip tie ‘fabric’ of sorts, but that isn’t quite my thing. Still it would work though…
